Comparing Strings in Arraylist and then making changes in the list

[Siddhesh Khedekar]

Hi Experts,

I have an ArrayList of String.

I want to compare every String with all the other Strings in the ArrayList, if that string matches with one of the String in ArrayList then I want to make some changes to that particular String.

Could you please suggest how to go about it?

[Mohamed Sanaulla]

Did you try implementing this? You can use equals() method of String class.

[Rob Spoor]

Siddhesh Khedekar wrote:then I want to make some changes to that particular String.

Do you mean you want to change the String at a specific List index? Because you know you can't change Strings themselves, right? Only references to it, including being a List element.

I suggest you look at ListIterator (and List.listIterator()). With it you can iterate over the List, then call set to change the value without having to worry about a nasty ConcurrentModificationException.